In 1987 we had a couple of gigs in Bretagne, the main one was for 15th anniversary of a regatta called "Les 24 heures de la voile" organized by Frederic Perennes at the age of 73. He booked us without even knowing a song just believing the words of some of his friends.
It was really a succes, more than 6ooo spectators,radio, tv etc.
Some weeks before a friend of mine tried to get some gigs for us in Tregastel during an event called "La Semaine de le Music" organized by one of the administrators of the village, a guy wearing his nose real high. He refused to book us because for what kind of reason ever.
To me it is very important that people understand what I sing and as many Germans or in this case Frenchies don't speak English I tried to give a short summit of each song in the beginnnig of it. Well,that works out fine in Germany but my French is not too good and while announcing a love song I wanted to say: this is a song for all people in love which in French means "pour tous les amoureux" but said instead, whithout even remarking it, "pour tous les amouretts". Not too funny so far but Amouretts was the name of this administrator who did not want to book us. A lot of people from the village already had called him a fool and idiot for not having booked "Oaktree" and then hearing this from stage everyone around him exploded laughing.
I was told this later after the show by a friend who stood right beside this man. He said to me that was the best response ever given to this arrogant person, maybe right because I wasn't aware of what I was saying.
I still have to grin when I remember that.

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